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Climate Heroes - Marching for Change in Argentina

Duolingo Spanish Podcast

Duolingo

Education, Society & Culture

4.414.4K Ratings

🗓️ 30 June 2022

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

A young Argentinian is inspired by Greta Thunberg to create one of Argentina’s most influential environmental organizations.

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0:00.0

Language supposedly has all these rules.

0:04.8

Most of us never have to think about those rules, but the hidden hand of language guides

0:08.6

nearly every interaction we have with other people, determining whether we connect, entertain,

0:14.2

confuse, insult, or dazzle the people we communicate with.

0:18.1

In Radio Lingo, the new podcast from Duo Lingo and Crooked Media, we explore how language

0:23.6

shapes our world and how our world shapes language.

0:27.2

I'm Amadella Yuckbure.

0:28.4

I'm an audio journalist and James Beard Award winning writer.

0:32.0

I am an awe-void language.

0:33.9

It's complexity and it's simplicity.

0:36.1

The way we can use it to create both distance and understanding.

0:39.6

I'm going to be your guide.

0:41.4

Join us as we take you on a linguistic journey.

0:44.7

From Crooked Media and Duo Lingo, this is Radio Lingo.

0:48.9

New episodes of Tuesdays on your favorite podcast apps.

0:56.8

It was a hot night in February 2019 in Buenos Aires, Argentina when 19-year-old Nicole Becker

1:04.5

was sitting at home, bored.

1:07.0

Like many young people, she grabbed her phone and started watching videos on Instagram.

1:35.8

Nicole had stumbled onto a video of Greta Thumbberg, the 16-year-old climate change activist.

1:48.0

Nicole was mesmerized.

1:50.4

She opened her laptop and Googled, the top result was a United Nations report that said,

1:59.1

quote, climate crisis, a matter of human rights.

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